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Stories In The Press
January 2002

[Dylan] [Dylan] [Dylan]

Photos from this month's electronic media articles.

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A rather unusual news item about young Dylan and fashion: Bob Dylan: The Message Was Then, The Message Is Now. But what about old Dylan and his natty threads?

The January 7 New Yorker's Goings On About Town included Pop Roundup, in which Love and Theft was listed as one of 12 favorites.

Love and Theft was voted Album of the Year at RollingStone.com

A New York Observer writer reflects on his 1978 interview with Dylan: 'That Wild Mercury Sound': Tangled Up in Bob Again

Gadfly's interview with Eric Lott, whose novel Love & Theft may have inspired the title for Dylan's latest album

Bob Dylan played piano on recent Dave Stewart track called "Home". You can listen to it at DaveStewart.com

Billboard reports on a new anthology: Vanguard Assembles Folk 'Songs Of Freedom'. One of the tracks is the Bob Dylan and Joan Baez duet "With God on Our Side."

Dylan's performance at the February 20 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo generated a lot of press. Here's a write-up from Rodeo Houston: Concert Star Lineup

Another article about the Houston show, from Canoe: Bob Dylan to play rodeo

Upcoming British shows are also in the news. From NME.com: The Free-Touring Bob Dylan

And from LiveDaily.com: More concert dates ahead for Bob Dylan

Other links of interest:

Get your daily Dylan updates at Expecting Rain. Oft-cited as the best Dylan site on the web, the news items are a great way to start the day.

Two excellent photo archives of magazines with Dylan on the cover from the collections of Michel Pomarede and Jeani Hoftijzer.

Several vintage articles about Dylan (mostly from the 70s) can be found at Rock's Back Pages Library Page.

A fascinating Tour Diary written by a roadie for Asleep At The Wheel, who opened for Dylan, is on the sonicnet site.

Curious about the European tours? Follow it with Dylanbase on the Road, or check out the Dylan bootleg database at the same site.

Another road diary offered up by Guster.com: check the August 1st diary for a description of the band meeting Dylan and the delicious food served up by the Dylan tour chef.

For descriptions and links to the reviews in local newspapers, see rec.music.dylan. Use the "Edit: Search Messages" function to look for specific articles. You can search rec.music.dylan at deja.com by typing in "rec.music.dylan" as the search term, then doing a subsearch when rec.music.dylan has loaded.

National Public Radio has an archive of Dylan radio program segments. These RealAudio files are about Dylan, rather than interviews with him.

For Dylan media appearances prior to June 1999, see 20 Lbs. of Headlines, a massive list of articles about Dylan. Not all of them are linked to the actual article, but there is still hours of reading to be found here.

The best source for interviews is News and Interviews at Boblinks. Magazine and newspaper articles can also be found here.

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